Creative? Feeling bogged down? Read on.

If like me, you are a creative type who sometimes gets bummed out because you don’t know where to take your art, but you know you want to make a business and a life from your art, then I hope that the following platforms helps you out the same way that these guys have helped me.

So first up. I discovered Paul Arden’s, It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be, and his other book Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite while I was at Uni, these snappy little books are really good for regaining your focus, you can dip in pretty much anywhere as a single point/tip/piece of advice only covers a few pages. Minimalistic aesthetics but still beautiful and small enough to carry about if you need too, these books are more about being punchy and taking risks to pursue your dreams.

On his Ted Talk, Scott Dinsmore talks about working out what it is that you cannot live without, and then try and find a way of sharing that with others. He has a tool kit that you can download and use, which I started to use but because of time, I didn’t finish, but it’s a good tool to get you started, and although I didn’t finish the series of questions, I started hitting on something in the direction that I’m taking now, I just didn’t know how to put it into words at the time. Something that I also think is super cool is on his website, you can put your location in, and meet up with others who are living their legends too.

Andy Miller is the host of Creative Pep Talk, a very awesome podcast, which I discovered maybe a month ago, and has helped me the most.

An illustrator who really wants to help others make a business from their art, is very much a beautiful person, a goof at heart which is a large part of it’s charm, uses cheesy analogies or as he likes to call them illustrations, who sometimes fumbles over his words but gives sound advice, has guest speakers, gives you a list of other podcasts and books to read, makes it fun, is funny and is very much worth a listen.

He covers things such as pricing, how to approach work, how to approach clients, suggest ways that you might be getting in the way of yourself, how to take on all the directions you want go into, and has given me a whole new perspective on how to move forward.

If you sign up for his newsletter you can have access to his first 50 podcasts, I think he has around 85 and he usually only sends one email a week to let you know that the new one is up.

You can listen on Soundcloud or itunes.

Procrastination is also something that I really struggle with, and given that you are human, you probably do too. Give Tim Urban’s Ted Talk, Inside The Mind of a Master Procrastinator a watch, where he explains in a very funny way, how it works and how we usually get work done, and then gives you a little tool which you can use for yourself.

I don’t know how many of you feel as though you want to do everything, but I found that working out my why has allowed room for all the directions that I want to follow and I’m hoping that it’ll do the same for you guys aswell.

Take it easy🐙